Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Following on from The Wrath of Khan, the ruined Enterprise limps home, with the crew grieving for Spock, who gave his life to conquer Khan. Back at base, the ship is due to be broken up and the crew dispersed, until Admiral Kirk learns that Spock's spirit lives on in a member of his crew and that his friend can be restored to life. But to do so, Kirk must return to the planet Genesis, where his son Dr David Marcus is under attack from the Klingons... Edited for content.
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1984, PG, 4 Star)

15:05

The Last Mimzy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn star as siblings Noah and Emma Wilder in Bob Shaye's intelligent family sci-fi adventure drama that doesn't talk down to children. While staying at their family beach house near Seattle, the two find a box of things that look like toys, but prove to be far more mysterious objects. Sent back in time, the 'toys' are trying to pass on a message about the future. And the more Noah and Emma play with the contents of the box, the more their intelligence grows. But one day Noah lines up the toys and accidentally activates a powerful force that creates a state-wide blackout. With her family under arrest by the FBI, Emma must make sense of the messages Mimzy, the toy rabbit, has been telepathically communicating to her.
Director: Robert Shaye
Starring: Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, PG, 4 Star)

16:55

Gallipoli (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Following the story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind them after they sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Charles Lathalu Yunipingli, Heath Harris, Ron Graham
(Subtitles, 1981, PG, 4 Star)

19:05

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Zac Efron takes the title role in this supernatural romantic fantasy from director Burr Steers. Life is looking good for teenager Charlie St Cloud: in spite of his relatively humble origins, his competitive yachting career is progressing nicely and he has just gained acceptance to an Ivy League School. But all this good stuff is destroyed in an instant when his brother Sam is killed in a car crash. Charlie turns his back on the world and takes a job in the cemetery where Sam is buried. It's here that the supernatural element kicks in, as Charlie can see and interact with the spirits of the dead, which means he can continue to spend time with his beloved sibling. But Charlie's world isn't entirely ethereal and, when he falls for his former classmate - and sailing equal - Tess Carroll, he finds himself forced to choose between his love for Tess and that for Sam, between the living and the dead. Also starring Kim Basinger and Ray Liotta. Edited for content.
Director: Burr Steers
Starring: Zac Efron, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew, Augustus Prew, Donal Logue, Kim Basinger
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

21:00

Knight and Day (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
James Mangold's action-comedy is a jet-setting caper that opens with June Havens crossing paths with Roy Miller at an airport. He's a CIA assassin whose colleagues think has turned rogue agent and are now out to put him permanently out of the game. He realises that, now she's met him, June's life is also in danger from those chasing him, so he kidnaps her to keep her safe. Forced to flee with him, the duo dash around the globe - with locations sweeping from the South Pacific to Seville - and must survive chase after chase in the fight to clear his name and return June to her 'regular' life in Wichita, Kansas.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà, Viola Davis, Paul Dano
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:10

Crazy Heart (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in Scott Cooper's music drama-romance, based on Thomas Cobb's novel. Bad Blake is approaching 60 and has a string of marriages and a successful career as a country music star behind him. His life now consists of little more than travelling alone from town to town to play in small bars, staying in dingy motels and enthusiastically imbibing a regular supply of alcohol. Then he meets journalist and single mother Jean Craddock, who is initially interested in him as a potential story, and it's not long before sexual chemistry develops and they become a couple. She encourages him to contact his former protégé Tommy Sweet, who's now a big star, and possibly resurrect his own career. But his battle with the booze isn't over, and threatens to block his road to a new life.
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Jeff Bridges, James Keane, Anna Felix, Paul Herman, Tom Bower, Ryan Bingham
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 4 Star)

01:20

Elegy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Isabel Coixet's drama stars Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz, and is adapted from Philip Roth's 2001 short novel The Dying Animal. David Kepesh, an ageing literature professor and cultural critic, having long ago ditched his family and marriage, lives a hedonistic existence sleeping around with younger women, as well as having a sex-only relationship with the nearer-his-age Carolyn. His best friend, George O'Hearn, encourages Kepesh's lifestyle, but suggests that he should also find a wife, with whom he can enjoy more cerebral pursuits. It's not long before Kepesh is captivated by the beautiful Consuela Castillo, who is not only much younger than him, but also one of his students. The pair embark on a passionate affair, but, as it starts to turn serious, Kepesh's insecurities well up and begin to push the pair apart.
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Harry
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

Bugles in the Afternoon (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Roy Rowland's western stars Ray Milland as Kern Shafter, a cavalry officer reduced to the ranks after a fight with fellow officer Edward Garnett. Ten years after the event, Shafter is assigned to a cavalry outpost in Dakota where Garnett is the commanding officer. Still smarting after his humiliation, Garnett assigns him the most dangerous of scouting duties among the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes and, to complicate matters, they both fall for the same woman, Josephine Carter. As both professional and emotional tensions rise, the action culminates at the Battle of Little Big Horn, where Shafter is sent to scout the enemy's positions, while Garnett leads his men into battle alongside Custer.
Director: Roy Rowland
Starring: Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Forrest Tucker, Barton MacLane, George Reeves
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1952, PG, 3 Star)

Hellfighters (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Andrew V McLaglen's firefighting action adventure stars John Wayne and is based on the work of famed real-life extinguisher of oil well fires Red Adair. Chance Buckman and his young colleague Greg Parker have established themselves as the people to phone whenever a major fire is burning out of control, and their perilous calling takes them around the globe to quell one dangerous conflagration after another. Complicating their lives are Buckman's relationship with his former wife Madelyn and Parker's spouse Tish, who is also Buckman's daughter.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Edward Faulkner
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, PG, 2 Star)

16:50

The Admirable Crichton (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy, based on J M Barrie's play, stars Kenneth More as the admirable Crichton, butler to Lord Loam and his family. When, while cruising in the South Seas, they are shipwrecked on a desert island, his Lordship takes command but it slowly emerges that Crichton possesses the skills for survival. As the master/servant roles are reversed, even romance is turned upside down; but surely rescue will reassert the status quo?
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt, Jack Watling
(Subtitles, 1957, U, 3 Star)

18:40

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Leonard Nimoy directs and stars in the follow-up to The Search for Spock, as the reborn Spock. With the USS Enterprise destroyed, he, Kirk, Scotty and Dr McCoy have been in exile on Vulcan, awaiting trial for disobeying orders. However, as they approach Earth, a mysterious probe wreaks havoc with the planet's climate. The probe's message, interpreted by Spock, is meant for humpback whales only. But humpback whales have long been extinct, so the planet's only hope is for Spock and his team to travel back in time, in a stolen Klingon craft, to bring back a pair of whales. The script allows for a lot of fish-out-of-water jokes as the crew find themselves in 1980s San Francisco, with Spock's inability to master swearing a running gag, but there's also tension, as the clock ticks down in the future, with marine biologist Gillian Taylor their best hope of finding suitable whales to save a future Earth. Edited for content.
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1986, PG, 4 Star)

21:00

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Sci-fi sequel unfolding a life-and-death battle to avert a nuclear holocaust. A supercomputer that sought to destroy humankind sends a virtually indestructible, shape-shifting cyborg back to our time to kill the human resistance leader in his youth. Aided by another cyborg, the boy and his mother try to alter the events that led to the computer's creation and the nuclear war it triggered.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, 18, 5 Star)

23:40

Kiss the Girls (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Disturbing thriller about the hunt for a killer - known only as Casanova - who has kidnapped a number of women and murdered two of them. When a detective's niece goes missing, he is drawn into a complex and highly personal investigation. The local police are unappreciative of his efforts, but his niece manages to escape with valuable information about the killer.
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur, Tony Goldwyn, Jay O. Sanders
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1997, 18, 3 Star)

01:55

Zebra Crossing (Film) Film icon 18 certificate
A gritty slice of urban drama from first-time director Sam Holland. Holland explores the lives and potential life choices of a group of lads who have been born into an area rife with hatred, poverty and violence - opting to capture their dilemmas and decisions in a suitably austere monochrome. Justin is the film's lynchpin; unlike his friend Tommy, who seems content to use violence to rise to the top of the south London estate's pecking order, Justin wants to escape gang culture. But can distancing himself from gang members and forming an alliance with Marcus achieve his goal?
Director: Sam Holland
Starring: Lee Turnbull, Greg Wakeham, Aaron White, Kyle Treslove, Kathryn O'Reilly, Michael Maris
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Black and White, 2011, 18, 2 Star)

Bear Island (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Donald Sutherland plays Frank Lansing, a researcher who has joined a NATO expedition to study global warming on an island deemed off limits, in this adaptation of Alistair MacLean's novel. An all-star cast of researchers end up at the frozen, isolated research station, where they run into a series of mysterious accidents and murders. Could a fortune in buried Nazi gold provide a motive for the violence?
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins, Lloyd Bridges
(Subtitles, 1980, PG, 2 Star)

13:20

Shane (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Alan Ladd plays the title role in George Stevens' epic Oscar-winning western as a drifter who joins farmer Joe Starrett's family at a homesteading community. But land baron Rufus Ryker wants them out and hires gunslinger Jack Wilson to pile on the pressure. For Shane, a past he thought he had left behind returns to haunt him.
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance, Ben Johnson
(Subtitles, 1953, PG, 4 Star)

15:45

Reach for the Sky (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
World War Two drama based on the true story about a fighter polit Douglas Bader who lost both of his legs in a flying accident in 1931, but overcame adversity to become a leading combat pilot during the Second World War.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox, Dorothy Alison
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1956, PG, 3 Star)

18:25

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan star in Oliver Stone's sequel to his 1987 blockbuster drama. The years have passed and Gordon Gekko has served his sentence for insider trading. Released from prison, he finds a world that has unequivocally turned from boom to bust. Now his two main aims are to establish himself as a writer and seek reconciliation with his daughter Winnie, who writes left of centre blogs and doesn't show too much warmth towards him. However, she's dating Jake Moore, a trader in ethical stocks. When a suspicious stock crash ruins Moore's mentor and forces Moore to work for the unscrupulous Bretton James, Gordon Gekko spies the opportunity he needs to make up with Winnie by helping her boyfriend. Edited for content.
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, Susan Sarandon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

21:00

The American (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
George Clooney stars as a hitman in this thoughtful and stylish thriller from Dutch director Anton Corbijn. When his career suffers an unexpected and violent setback in Sweden, seemingly unemotional assassin Jack is ordered to hide himself at a safe house in the mountains of Abruzzo in Italy. The resultant peace and quiet - and his friendship with the local priest Father Benedetto and more with local prostitute Clara - make Jack question the nature of his business and begin to explore the possibility of quitting. But will this prospect of a new life be compromised when he's ordered to carry out one last job: to hand-build a rifle for a new contact, the glamorous Mathilde? First play on Film4.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen, Irina Björklund
(Premiere, Widescreen, In English and Italian with English Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

23:05

Unfaithful (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne's steamy thriller, adapted from Claude Chabrol's La Femme Infidèle (1969), stars Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez. One windy day in New York, Connie Sumner (Lane) literally bumps into Paul Martel (Martinez). She's happily married with a child, he's a dealer in rare books. When invited to his flat to repair the damage caused by their sidewalk collision, he makes a move on her, but she declines and leaves. However, she's now intrigued by him and it's not long before she returns to him and embarks on a passionate affair. But Connie's not the best liar in the world, and her businessman husband Ed (Gere), thinking her story doesn't stack up, hires a private investigator (Dominic Chianese) to keep tabs on her. When the detective's evidence confirms Ed's fears, it thrusts the three main players on the road to tragedy.
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Diane Lane, Erik Per Sullivan, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dominic Chianese
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 18, 3 Star)

01:30

Funny Games (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Michael Haneke's American remake of his 1997 German thriller loses none of the terror or horror of the original in this translation. An all-American family - George, Ann and son Georgie - arrive at their summer cottage for a yachting holiday. Two polite young men, Paul and Peter introduce themselves as neighbours but suddenly and brutally instil a nihilistic, sadistic regime on the family, playing mind games and torturing them. Haneke famously makes the audience complicit to events, boldly breaking the fourth wall, and while the violence largely happens off screen it remains horribly audible throughout.
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 3 Star)

The Tall Stranger (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Joel McCrea plays Ned Bannon, an American Civil War Union officer wounded in battle and left for dead. Rescued by a wagon train, he's nursed back to health and offers to guide the wagons west, but the Confederates among the passengers ostracise him. He finds solace with Ellen and acceptance when he thwarts an ambush engineered by land baron Hardy, his half-brother. Directed by Thomas Carr, a veteran of western films and TV series.
Director: Thomas Carr
Starring: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell, James Dobson
(Subtitles, 1957, 15, 3 Star)

12:40

Town on Trial (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Thrilling British whodunnit with a sharp twist, simmering social tension and a rare performance of coiled brutality from John Mills. He plays a scarred police superintendant investigating a spate of sexually related murders in a posh suburban community. When his aggressive tactics turn the town against him, only Elizabeth Fenner will lend him an ear, but their relationship is stymied when her father becomes the chief suspect.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Charles Coburn, John Mills, Barbara Bates, Derek Farr, Alec McCowen, Elizabeth Seal
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1957, U, 3 Star)

14:35

The 39 Steps (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Kenneth More stars as Richard Hannay in the second film adaptation of John Buchan's ripping espionage yarn. It's more than a simple remake of Alfred Hitchcock's original 1935 movie, played this time for light-hearted excitement rather than suspense. And it certainly fulfils its ambition, as Hannay gamely romps around the Scottish countryside in a 48-hour dash to save the day by cracking an international plot to smuggle defence plans out of Britain.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Faith Brook
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 3 Star)

16:30

'Pimpernel' Smith (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Leslie Howard directs and stars in this wartime morale booster based on Baroness Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Howard plays mild-mannered archaeologist Horatio Smith who, while pretending that he's searching for Aryan artefacts near the Swiss border, smuggles refugees from the Nazis to safety. But his most dangerous rescue takes him to Berlin, to save a young girl who has been forced to help the Germans find information that will uncover Smith's organisation. Can he spirit her to safety from under the nose of his Gestapo adversary General Von Graum?
Director: Leslie Howard
Starring: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley, Manning Whiley
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1941, U, 4 Star)

18:55

X-Men: The Last Stand (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
When a mutant called Leech produces an antibody that cures all mutants, billionaire Warren Worthington II, driven by shame of his mutant son, kidnaps Leech to manufacture the cure and rid the world of mutants. But while Professor Charles Xavier advises negotiation and understanding, Magneto favours using mutant force against Worthington. Caught in the middle is government advisor Dr Hank McCoy, aka Beast. As the mutants, including Wolverine, Storm, Phoenix and Juggernaut, take sides, the battle becomes the final stand for the X-Men.
Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 4 Star)

21:00

Hitman (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Xavier Gens' action-thriller stars Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47, a nameless assassin belonging to an amoral worldwide organisation that's happy to carry out the dirty work for many major powers. After an operation goes wrong, he goes on the run from both the Russian Secret Service and his own organisation, reluctantly allowing Nika Boronina to tag along. Spying on them both is Interpol agent Mike Whittier. The film is adapted from a computer game but rises above a simple shoot-'em-up level thanks to Agent 47's complicated personality and enigmatic nature.
Director: Xavier Gens
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Henry Ian Cusick
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

22:50

What Lies Beneath (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Supernatural thriller about a woman who uncovers a chilling secret in her husband's past when, recuperating from a serious road accident, she starts to see visions of a mysterious woman. The husband, a university research scientist, sends his wife to a therapist. Events take an even more ominous turn when her therapist suggests she make contact with the apparition.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid, Joe Morton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2000, 15, 3 Star)

01:20

Buffalo '66 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Vincent Gallo wrote, cast and made his directorial debut with this bizarre, totally absorbing movie that runs the gamut from high comedy to dark drama. Gallo also stars as Billy Brown, a released con who kidnaps blonde micro-skirted Layla from her dance class and persuades her to pretend to be his wife for the benefit of his dysfunctional parents. Meanwhile, he plots revenge against the player for the American football team, the Buffalo Bills, whose miskick landed him in prison.
Director: Vincent Gallo
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Jan-Michael Vincent
(Subtitles, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

Nostalgia for the Light (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Chilean director Patricio Guzman's film is a poetic and moving documentary about searching for the past. It explores how the lofty altitude and arid conditions of Chile's Atacama Desert have seen the area, far from any light pollution, become a magnet for astronomers. But Guzman also weaves in to his narrative the region's inescapably dark recent past. The film's title is derived from that of a book by French scientist Michel Cass?, which reflects upon how, just as the Atacama was set to become a global centre for modern astronomy, a USA-backed coup brought General Augusto Pinochet to power and closed off the country from the rest of the world.
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Starring: Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel, Victor González, Vicky Saaveda
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2010, 12, 4 Star)

12:55

Conspiracy of Hearts (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
In 1943 in Italy, Mother Katharine and Sister Mitya are part of a group of nuns helping to smuggle orphaned Jewish children out of an internment camp. Initially, a sympathetic Italian major helps them, but when he's replaced by a Nazi colonel and a lieutenant, the nuns find themselves in much more danger.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1960, U, 3 Star)

15:10

The Riddle of the Sands (Film) Film icon U certificate
Tony Maylam's thriller is based on Erskine Childers' classic novel. Set in 1901, when Britannia ruled the waves, it stars Simon MacCorkindale as Arthur Davies who, while out sailing in the North Sea, has a run-in with a German captain, Dollmann. His suspicions aroused, Davies calls in his old friend Charles Carruthers of the Foreign Office and the two set sail again, only to find that the Germans are planning an invasion of Britain and they are the only two who can stop them. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Christopher Challis, this is a thoroughly enjoyable drama, based on one of the earliest spy novels.
Director: Tony Maylam
Starring: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Simon MacCorkindale
(Subtitles, 1979, U, 2 Star)

Letters to Juliet (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave star in Gary Winick's dreamy romantic drama. American magazine employee Sophie is on holiday in Italy with her husband-to-be Victor. In Verona, home of Shakespeare's star-cross'd lovers, she stumbles across a tradition whereby modern-day women cathartically leave notes about their love lives addressed to the fictional Juliet, and to which other modern-day women reply. The note that catches Sophie's eye is from an English woman, Claire, detailing her lost Italian love. Despite it languishing for decades, Sophie decides to respond to the note, little realising that she's just taken the first step on a romance-imbued journey of her own...Also starring Franco Nero and Christopher Egan. In English, and Italian and Spanish, with English subtitles.
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Marcia DeBonis, Gael García Bernal, Giordano Formenti, Paolo Arvedi, Dario Conti
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG, 3 Star)

21:00

Transporter 3 (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Olivier Megaton takes the helm for the third instalment in the high-octane action thriller franchise. Jason Statham returns to his role as Frank Martin, the crook's courier of choice for legally dubious goods. In this outing he is employed by a group of environmental terrorists to drive across Europe with Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government minister. To make their journey more 'interesting', the pair are fitted with bracelets which will explode if either strays too far from their car. They are, of course, also pursued by numerous brawny types intent on bringing Martin's continental jaunt to a violently abrupt conclusion. In English, French, Ukranian, Russian and Hungarian with English subtitles.
Director: Olivier Megaton
Starring: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbé, Alex Kobold
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)

23:05

Babylon A.D. (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Mathieu Kassowitz's science fiction film is set in a dystopian future where corporations rule the cities. Mercenary Toorop is hired by Gorsky to pick up a 'package' from Russia and deliver it, via Alaska and Canada, to the high priestess of a new religion in New York. The package turns out to be a young woman, Aurora, accompanied by a nun, Sister Rebeka. But as the journey progresses, Aurora demonstrates other-worldly powers and, for Toorop, what was simply a job becomes a quest for redemption, as he tries to guard Aurora from the various factions that either wish her harm or want to claim her powers for their own use.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 12, 3 Star)

00:50

Fish Story (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Yoshihiro Nakamura's distinctly odd sci-fi comedy follows the trajectory of a song recorded by a Japanese punk band. Waxed in 1975, Fish Story not only got the musical jump on Britain and America's claims to have invented punk, but could also hold the key to saving Earth. Starring Atsushi Ito, Mirai Moriyama and Kengo Kora.
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Vincent Giry, Gaku Hamada, Atsushi Itô, Kengo Kôra, Mirai Moriyama, Yoshihiro Nagata
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2009, 15, 4 Star)

Hellfighters (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Andrew V McLaglen's firefighting action adventure stars John Wayne and is based on the work of famed real-life extinguisher of oil well fires Red Adair. Chance Buckman and his young colleague Greg Parker have established themselves as the people to phone whenever a major fire is burning out of control, and their perilous calling takes them around the globe to quell one dangerous conflagration after another. Complicating their lives are Buckman's relationship with his former wife Madelyn and Parker's spouse Tish, who is also Buckman's daughter.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Edward Faulkner
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, PG, 2 Star)

18:45

Marley and Me (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel's light comedy-drama - based on a best-selling autobiography - stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as two journalists who welcome an unruly dog into their lives. Relocating to Florida, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan end up working for rival newspapers, with Jenny landing the more high-profile job. When she starts to get broody, one of John's colleagues suggests they see how they cope with a puppy before trying for a baby, so John picks a cute yellow Labrador retriever, Marley, as a gift for Jenny. Marley is a double-edged sword: he's an untrainably anarchic source of destruction; but he also gives John the material for a wry newspaper column, which improves his standing and the paper's circulation figures.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Ann Dowd
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, PG, 4 Star)

21:00

Insidious (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne star in this creepy, psychological horror about a series of inexplicable events that take place after a couple's young son falls into a coma. Renai and Josh Lambert have recently moved into a new home with their son Dalton. One day, Dalton is playing in the attic when he sees something that terrifies him - and the next day, Josh and Renai can't wake him up. They're told he's fallen into a sudden coma - but the cause is a mystery. Three months later, they move him back into the house, with Dalton still in the coma, and within days a number of strange happenings take place. A bloody handprint appears on Dalton's bedsheets. Renai is almost attacked by a man in Dalton's room - who then disappears. They move house, but the events continue. Desperate, they call in a medium - who tells them that the cause of these occurences isn't the house, but Dalton himself.... First play on Film4.
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

23:00

Pi (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Max is a reclusive mathematician who's built a supercomputer that will not only provide him with the key to cracking the stock market but may also reveal the true name of Jehovah, a discovery that could lead to the end of the world. But his search brings him to the attention of both Hassidic priests and Wall Street gurus. With Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman and Pamela Hart. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. First play on free Film4.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman, Samia Shoaib
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)

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Parents (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Actor Bob Balaban made his directorial feature debut with this extraordinary and sinisterly subversive black comedy. The year is 1958 and young Michael Laemle and his family have moved to a small town in Indiana. His parents, defoliant expert Nick and Lily, who spends her days happily working in the kitchen, are aggressively fashionable and dedicated to keeping up appearances. But the youngster is becoming sure that they're hiding something from him. It's a concern that's increased when, half-asleep, he catches his parents in an embrace, which strangely troubles him. At school, he's befriended by another newcomer, Sheila Zellner whose claim to be an alien appeals to his creative imagination. But the heavy use of red crayons on a picture depicting his home life alarms his teacher, who calls in the school psychiatrist. Could his parents really have a darkly secret dual life? Is there really something suspicious about the quantity of red meat the Laemle's passionately consume?
Director: Bob Balaban
Starring: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky, London Juno, Kathryn Grody
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1989, 18, 3 Star)

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Water Lilies (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Celine Sciamma's debut feature explores burgeoning teenage female sexuality in the world of synchronised swimming. During a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronised swimming team. But is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma and the two leads capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama about the angst of coming-of-age.
Director: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, Adele Haenel, Warren Jacquin, Christel Baras, Marie Gili-Pierre
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

The Last Mimzy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn star as siblings Noah and Emma Wilder in Bob Shaye's intelligent family sci-fi adventure drama that doesn't talk down to children. While staying at their family beach house near Seattle, the two find a box of things that look like toys, but prove to be far more mysterious objects. Sent back in time, the 'toys' are trying to pass on a message about the future. And the more Noah and Emma play with the contents of the box, the more their intelligence grows. But one day Noah lines up the toys and accidentally activates a powerful force that creates a state-wide blackout. With her family under arrest by the FBI, Emma must make sense of the messages Mimzy, the toy rabbit, has been telepathically communicating to her.
Director: Robert Shaye
Starring: Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, PG, 4 Star)

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Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there's a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets wealthy American Will Darcy, and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate?
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar
(Subtitles, 2004, 12, 3 Star)

15:25

Anna and the King (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Jodie Foster stars in Andy Tennant's drama - based on the true story that also inspired the hit musical The King and I - as Anna Leonowens, the prim English governess engaged by King Mongkut of Siam to educate his children in the 19th century. At first, the two cultures clash but as the pair get to know each other, romance begins to blossom, before a plot against the throne threatens their relationship. Edited for content.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 12, 3 Star)

18:25

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan star in Oliver Stone's sequel to his 1987 blockbuster drama. The years have passed and Gordon Gekko has served his sentence for insider trading. Released from prison, he finds a world that has unequivocally turned from boom to bust. Now his two main aims are to establish himself as a writer and seek reconciliation with his daughter Winnie, who writes left of centre blogs and doesn't show too much warmth towards him. However, she's dating Jake Moore, a trader in ethical stocks. When a suspicious stock crash ruins Moore's mentor and forces Moore to work for the unscrupulous Bretton James, Gordon Gekko spies the opportunity he needs to make up with Winnie by helping her boyfriend. Edited for content.
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, Susan Sarandon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

21:00

Trading Places (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
In John Landis's landmark, rip-roaring comedy, Dan Aykroyd plays Louis Winthorpe III, a rich, smug investment broker who is set up by brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke in their experiment to prove that environment counts for more than breeding. He's stripped of his home, money, fiancé and job, and the homeless Billy Ray Valentine take his place. The only person interested in helping Winthorpe is hooker Ophelia. But when Louis, Billy Ray and Ophelia discover Randolph and Duke's plot, they plan to get even.
Director: John Landis
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1983, 15, 4 Star)

Pan's Labyrinth (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
In 1940s Spain, a young girl escapes from the horrifying brutality of her sadistic stepfather's military endeavours into a mysterious netherworld of magic and monsters where she is set three tasks that will see her crowned as princess of this strange kingdom.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Álex Ángulo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
In Robert Wise's classic science fiction film, a flying saucer piloted by alien Klaatu lands in Washington to warn Earth to change its warring ways or risk destruction. But along the way, Klaatu finds time to learn more about Earthlings' habits in the company of Helen Benson and her son.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1951, U, 4 Star)

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Leonard Nimoy directs and stars in the follow-up to The Search for Spock, as the reborn Spock. With the USS Enterprise destroyed, he, Kirk, Scotty and Dr McCoy have been in exile on Vulcan, awaiting trial for disobeying orders. However, as they approach Earth, a mysterious probe wreaks havoc with the planet's climate. The probe's message, interpreted by Spock, is meant for humpback whales only. But humpback whales have long been extinct, so the planet's only hope is for Spock and his team to travel back in time, in a stolen Klingon craft, to bring back a pair of whales. The script allows for a lot of fish-out-of-water jokes as the crew find themselves in 1980s San Francisco, with Spock's inability to master swearing a running gag, but there's also tension, as the clock ticks down in the future, with marine biologist Gillian Taylor their best hope of finding suitable whales to save a future Earth. Edited for content.
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1986, PG, 4 Star)

The Brady Bunch Movie (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Betty Thomas directs this comedy about one of America's favourite TV families of the 70s. Except it's now the 90s and, while the world has moved on, they haven't. Parents Mike and Carol and their brood are now irritating anachronisms rather than the loved, slightly goofy family they once were. But worse, they've forgotten to pay their property taxes and their neighbour, Mr Dittmeyer, sees his chance to buy their home - orange Formica kitchen fittings and all - and raze it to the ground as part of a property development scheme. Can the family raise the necessary $20,000 to save their house in just one week? Watch out for cameo appearances from some of the original cast. Edited for content.
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jennifer Elise Cox, Paul Sutera
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, PG, 2 Star)

18:50

Mission: Impossible (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Brian De Palma took the helm for this first instalment of the action thriller franchise that rebooted the American TV series. Tom Cruise stars as agent Ethan Hunt, member of America's elite IMF team. Hunt and a group of colleagues are sent to Prague to both prevent a list of undercover agents' real identities from being disclosed, and to reveal who within the IMF has turned traitor. But things go disastrously wrong and all but one of the team are massacred. As the sole survivor, Hunt must now try to prove his innocence and discover the real betrayer before he is terminated by his own government. And thus begins a top-class, high-octane chase thriller, packed with jaw-dropping special effects and stunts. Also starring Jean Reno, Vanessa Redgrave, Jon Voight and Kristin Scott Thomas. Edited for content.
Director: Brian de Palma
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, PG, 4 Star)

21:00

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Sci-fi sequel unfolding a life-and-death battle to avert a nuclear holocaust. A supercomputer that sought to destroy humankind sends a virtually indestructible, shape-shifting cyborg back to our time to kill the human resistance leader in his youth. Aided by another cyborg, the boy and his mother try to alter the events that led to the computer's creation and the nuclear war it triggered.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, 18, 5 Star)

23:40

The King of Pigs (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Korean director Yeon Sang-ho's debut animation examines bullying within Korea's social hierarchies; a world away from the visual style of Japan's Studio Ghibli, it has the feel of a collaboration between Quentin Tarantino and the makers of King of the Hill. Erupting with brutal violence from the outset, The King of Pigs lets us in to the lives of Kyung-min and Jong-Suk. Both now struggling to make their way in the worlds of business and literature, they meet up to discuss their childhood. At school, the pair were designated as members of a nerdy underclass called the 'pigs' and relentlessly, viciously picked upon by a clique of tormentors known as the 'dogs'. Salvation, or at least survival, for the 'pigs' came in the form of the worryingly troubled, extremely bellicose Chul, a former classmate who, despite having dropped out of school, takes cruel satisfaction in gorily avenging the 'dogs' misdeeds. Film4 premiere.
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Starring: Ik-Joon Yang, Jeong-se Oh, Hye-na Kim, Kkobbi Kim, Hee-von Park
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Korean with English Subtitles, Premiere, Widescreen, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

01:35

Kiss the Girls (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Disturbing thriller about the hunt for a killer - known only as Casanova - who has kidnapped a number of women and murdered two of them. When a detective's niece goes missing, he is drawn into a complex and highly personal investigation. The local police are unappreciative of his efforts, but his niece manages to escape with valuable information about the killer.
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur, Tony Goldwyn, Jay O. Sanders
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1997, 18, 3 Star)

Reach for the Sky (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
World War Two drama based on the true story about a fighter polit Douglas Bader who lost both of his legs in a flying accident in 1931, but overcame adversity to become a leading combat pilot during the Second World War.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox, Dorothy Alison
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1956, PG, 3 Star)

13:40

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
For a brief period in the 1960s, there was a fad for madcap movies such as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Monte Carlo or Bust!, The Great Race and Around the World in 80 Days; and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is among those that worked. Newspaper publisher Lord Rawnsley puts up a £10,000 prize for the winner of a flight from London to Paris and soon his daughter Patricia, her would-be husband Richard, his rival for her hand and a motley collection of aviators are gathered, ready for the race to begin. Among them, of course, is the requisite villain, Sir Percy Ware-Armitage, aided by his put-upon servant Courtney.
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, U, 3 Star)

16:20

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Sturges' telling of the infamous battle in Tombstone stars Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday. When marshal Earp saves Holliday from a lynch mob, the pair form an unlikely friendship. After several scrapes, they end up in Tombstone, where Wyatt's cousin Virgil needs help with the troublesome Clanton family. Joined by brothers Morgan and Jimmy, the Earps and Holliday ride into history. Love interest comes in the shape of Laura Denbow, an independent lady who intrigues Wyatt, and Kate Fisher, Holliday's long-suffering girl.
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland, Lyle Bettger
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

18:55

Letters to Juliet (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave star in Gary Winick's dreamy romantic drama. American magazine employee Sophie is on holiday in Italy with her husband-to-be Victor. In Verona, home of Shakespeare's star-cross'd lovers, she stumbles across a tradition whereby modern-day women cathartically leave notes about their love lives addressed to the fictional Juliet, and to which other modern-day women reply. The note that catches Sophie's eye is from an English woman, Claire, detailing her lost Italian love. Despite it languishing for decades, Sophie decides to respond to the note, little realising that she's just taken the first step on a romance-imbued journey of her own... Also starring Franco Nero and Christopher Egan. In English, and Italian and Spanish, with English subtitles. Edited for content.
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Marcia DeBonis, Gael García Bernal, Giordano Formenti, Paolo Arvedi, Dario Conti
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG, 3 Star)

21:00

Battle: Los Angeles (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Aaron Eckhart stars in this explosive action thriller about a group of soldiers caught up in the chaos when aliens invade Los Angeles. The world watches in awe as a bombardment of meteors rains down upon Earth from outer space. But when it's observed that these 'meteors' slow down before hitting their targets, it's clear they're anything but a natural phenomenom. Earth is under attack. Cue the arrival of Staff Sergeant Nantz - a grizzled war vet with a troubled combat history. Just days away from retirement, he's called in to help evacuate a group of civilians trapped within an alien-controlled area in Santa Monica beach. He leads a group of fellow soldiers into the combat zone, joining along the way a group of National Guard Soldiers. Can Nantz overcome his demons and lead the squad and the civilians to safety?
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Will Rothhaar, Cory Hardrict, Jim Parrack, Gino Anthony Pesi
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12)

23:15

Rising Sun (Film) Film icon 18 certificate
Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes star in Philip Kaufman's crime mystery, based on the Michael Crichton novel. When a call girl is found murdered in the Los Angeles offices of a huge Japanese corporation, Captain John Connor, a local police officer with extensive experience of Japan, is called in to take charge of the case. As Connor and his younger sidekick Lieutenant Webster Smith investigate, the cops uncover a murky world of violent, kinky sex, with links to politicians and Eddie Sakamura, the son of a wealthy businessman and a close friend of Connor's. But is everything as it seems?
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako
(1993, 18, 2 Star)

01:50

Benda Bilili! (Documentary) 12 certificate
Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's inspirational documentary tells the story of Staff Benda Bilili, a band formed in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from an alliance of street kids and four older men left paraplegic after contracting poliomyelitis in their youth. From extremely humble beginnings in the chaos and criminality of one of the African continent's great musical hotbeds, the film follows the band members as they take their rousing, rootsy style of music, played partly on home-made instruments, from the backstreets of their home city to the enthusiastic audiences they encounter on their subsequent European tour.
(In Lingala and French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2011, 12)

A Letter to Elia (Documentary) 12 certificate
Co-directors Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones pay tribute to Elia Kazan, the trailblazing director of such landmark American movies as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and East of Eden. The inspirational director's career is traced from Broadway, where he was one of the founders of Method acting, to Hollywood, where he cemented Marlon Brando's screen reputation and helped to make James Dean a star. Scorsese and Jones' affection for their subject is clear, and this documentary is amply illustrated with clips from the three-time Oscar winner's films, as well as interview footage with Kazan himself.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12)

12:15

The Tall Stranger (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Joel McCrea plays Ned Bannon, an American Civil War Union officer wounded in battle and left for dead. Rescued by a wagon train, he's nursed back to health and offers to guide the wagons west, but the Confederates among the passengers ostracise him. He finds solace with Ellen and acceptance when he thwarts an ambush engineered by land baron Hardy, his half-brother. Directed by Thomas Carr, a veteran of western films and TV series.
Director: Thomas Carr
Starring: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell, James Dobson
(Subtitles, 1957, 15, 3 Star)

13:55

'Pimpernel' Smith (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Leslie Howard directs and stars in this wartime morale booster based on Baroness Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Howard plays mild-mannered archaeologist Horatio Smith who, while pretending that he's searching for Aryan artefacts near the Swiss border, smuggles refugees from the Nazis to safety. But his most dangerous rescue takes him to Berlin, to save a young girl who has been forced to help the Germans find information that will uncover Smith's organisation. Can he spirit her to safety from under the nose of his Gestapo adversary General Von Graum?
Director: Leslie Howard
Starring: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley, Manning Whiley
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1941, U, 4 Star)

16:20

The Electric Horseman (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Light comedy about a former champion rodeo rider hired to promote a breakfast cereal who takes off on the $12 million horse condemned to share his degrading assignment. What pushes him over the edge is the discovery that the animal is being pumped with dope to keep it calm. As he heads into the desert in protest, a female reporter hungry for a scoop gives chase.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson, John Saxon, Nicolas Coster
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1979, PG, 3 Star)

18:55

X-Men: The Last Stand (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
When a mutant called Leech produces an antibody that cures all mutants, billionaire Warren Worthington II, driven by shame of his mutant son, kidnaps Leech to manufacture the cure and rid the world of mutants. But while Professor Charles Xavier advises negotiation and understanding, Magneto favours using mutant force against Worthington. Caught in the middle is government advisor Dr Hank McCoy, aka Beast. As the mutants, including Wolverine, Storm, Phoenix and Juggernaut, take sides, the battle becomes the final stand for the X-Men.
Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 4 Star)

21:00

Transporter 3 (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Olivier Megaton takes the helm for the third instalment in the high-octane action thriller franchise. Jason Statham returns to his role as Frank Martin, the crook's courier of choice for legally dubious goods. In this outing he is employed by a group of environmental terrorists to drive across Europe with Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government minister. To make their journey more 'interesting', the pair are fitted with bracelets which will explode if either strays too far from their car. They are, of course, also pursued by numerous brawny types intent on bringing Martin's continental jaunt to a violently abrupt conclusion. In English, French, Ukranian, Russian and Hungarian with English subtitles.
Director: Olivier Megaton
Starring: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbé, Alex Kobold
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)

23:05

Compliance (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Pat Healy, Ann Dowd and Dreama Walker star in writer-director Craig Zobel's extremely disturbing fact-based thriller that explores the power we invest in figures of authority. Middle-aged Sandra works for the ChickWich fast-food chain as a manager. One day, she takes a phone call from a man identifying himself as Officer Daniels. Daniels tells Sandra he has received a complaint that a blonde member of her staff has stolen money from a customer. He tells Sandra that, until the police arrive, she should isolate the culprit and await further instructions. Used to unquestioningly following her company's commands and instantly identifying her twentysomething colleague Becky as the only person fitting the description given by Daniels, Sandra complies.
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 15)

00:50

Perrier's Bounty (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Ian Fitzgibbon's comedy crime thriller starring Cillian Murphy, Jodie Whittaker and Jim Broadbent. Michael is left with a bounty on his head following his non-payment of a debt to - and a rather more serious misunderstanding with - some particularly nasty Dublin gangsters, led by Darren Perrier. Understandably, Michael isn't keen to hang around and let the mobsters claim their prize easily, so he goes on the run, taking along his neighbour Brenda and his father. But Brenda knows more than she's letting on, and Michael's father has been, well, rather erratic of late. Neither of these factors improves Michael's chances of survival. The cast also features Gabriel Byrne as the voice of the Grim Reaper.
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Michael McElhatton, Don Wycherley, Jodie Whittaker, Brendan Coyle
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

02:30

A Town Called Panic (Animation) PG certificate
A feature-length version of Belgian animators Vincent Patar and Stephane Aubier's kids' show Panique au village, which concerns the everyday adventures of three housemates living in a very small village. The principal characters are plastic toys called Cowboy and Indian, who share their home with a talking horse called... Horse. The 'human' duo don't possess the sharpest of intellects and spend most of their time squabbling, while Horse's days are largely spent homemaking and keeping the other two in line.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, PG)